Quotes About Planning

When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation.

Remember the six Ps. Perfect Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Best way to predict your future is to create it.

Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives—although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.

the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

trying to prioritize activities before you even know how they relate to your sense of personal mission and how they fit into the balance of your life is not effective.

Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.

It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren't urgent.

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation, to all things.

The carpenter's rule is "measure twice, cut once.

The very language of "daily planning" focuses on the urgent—the "now." While third generation prioritization provides order to activity, it doesn't question the essential importance of the activity in the first place—it doesn't place the activity in the context of principles, personal mission, roles, and goals.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And

Before you read further, take a few minutes to jot down your impressions.

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves.

There's so much to do. And there's never enough time. I feel pressured and hassled all day, every day, seven days a week. I've attended time management seminars and I've tried half a dozen different planning systems. They've helped some, but I still don't feel I'm living the happy, productive, peaceful life I want to live.

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves. While most of the world spins around in Quadrant I, reacting to urgent matters and managing one crisis after another, people who spend a majority of their time in Quadrant II are leading balanced, serene, and ordered lives. They are planning and executing according to their highest priorities.

2: Begin with the End in Mind).

3: Put First Things First).

all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

begin with the end in mind" is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined.

The key is to not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.